We’re so thrilled to release our latest single, Selfies, and a video for it, created by Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac!

Ryan Martin, of Jammerzine, described it as “[s]onically decadent in all the right spots,” cutting-edge, and “music as a lesson. Beautiful.”

William Helms of The Joy of Violent Movement wrote:

States of America‘s latest single “Selfies” is a neurotic, New Wave-meets-No Wave-meets-art punk ripper centered around a menacing Stooges-like groove, thunderous drumming, Gutstein’s sardonic, spoken word lyrics about the emptiness and vapidity of social media narcissism paired with Meadors’ saxophone skronk and wailing that initially creeps its way into the arrangement and builds up in intensity as then song ends with an explosive and chaotic coda. The song captures the relentless need to be liked, seen as cool, successful and popular that’s inspired by the social media age in a way that’s startlingly accurate yet wildly hilarious.

William Helms

The single was also featured on NPR’s New Music Friday Spotify playlist!

Many thanks William, Ryan, Jacqueline Codiga, and to Tommy Hambleton of Procrastination Records! We’re excited to be gearing up to a full album release this summer for States of America, which will be out on June 11.